A random coincidence of circumstances leads to the fact that the heroine of I. Khmelevskaya’s story “What the Dead Man Said” turns out to be the only owner of the secret that hides the location of gangster treasures. The bandits capture Ioanna (the heroine of the story bears the same name as the author of the book, thanks to which the reader gets the impression of absolute authenticity of the events described). The gangsters deliver the captive to their base and try to find out the treasured code from her in order to then get rid of the dangerous witness...